IA Interior Architects, Toronto: Feng Shui in All the Right Places
One highlight of IIDEXCanada in Toronto last week was a tour of Scotiabank Digital Factory, the innovative new fintech hub created by IA Interior Architects for Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada’s third-largest bank by deposits and market cap, with assets of nearly $1-trillion, serving more than 23 million customers in 55 countries. We interviewed one of the tour leaders, Beverly Horii, IA Toronto’s managing director and principal, at her firm’s office to chat about why Scotiabank’s Digital Factory has stimulated such interest within the A&D and business communities, and more generally, how IA’s first Canadian branch is doing. She came to the project with banking credentials, having masterminded the redesign of all the Greater Toronto Area branches of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, another of Canada’s “Big Five” banks, while leading the in-house design team there. OI: IA’s mission – “the first global architecture firm dedicated exclusively to the practice …
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